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In the Tiger Woods era, it was hard to find a better Father's Day storyline for the network announcers to ply than that of the young superstar and his dad. Woods' father, Earl, put a golf club in his son's hands when the child was only months old, and the one-time Green Beret remained Tiger's foremost mentor until his death in 2006. The relationship and storyline were so deeply ingrained in the popular imagination that in 2010, Nike used the voice of Earl Woods in an ad asking Tiger whether he had "learned anything" — presumably from his off-course personal troubles. Not only is NBC Sports facing this Father's Day and the finale of the U.S. Open...

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In the Tiger Woods era, it was hard to find a better Father's Day storyline for the network announcers to ply than that of the young superstar and his dad.
Woods' father, Earl, put a golf club in his son's hands when the child was only months old, and...

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